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Plural of password

regular plural

The plural of password is passwords.

Forms of password

Singularpassword /ˈpæs.wɜɹd/
Pluralpasswords
Countablecountable

Passwords in a sentence

  • Users have reported friction from having to enter their passwords many times a day.From the entry friction
  • The strongest passwords are those which mix numbers and letters, upper case and lower case, and symbols.From the entry lower case
  • Experts warn against using ordinary words as passwords as they are vulnerable to dictionary attacks.From the entry dictionary attack
  • The NCSC said this week it would no longer recommend using passwords where passkeys were available.2026 April 24, Dan Milmo, “What is a passkey, how does it work and why is it better than a password?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry passkey
  • The man in black asked Christopher for the secret passwords he'd been given and he answered correctly.2015, Lee Morgan, The Bones Would Do: Book Two of the Christopher Penrose Novels. From the entry heal

Meaning of password

  1. noun A word relayed to a person to gain admittance to a place or to gain access to information.
  2. noun A string of characters used to log in to a computer or network, to access a level in a video game, and so on; archetypally a word but nowadays often an alphanumeric string or a phrase.
  3. verb To protect with a password.

Full definition of password

Questions about the plural of password

What is the plural of password?
The plural of password is passwords.
Is password countable?
Password is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: password (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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